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Many of the ornamental
and flowering trees and shrubs and herbaceous garden plants found in cities,
towns, and home landscapes throughout the United States and many other
countries were developed by scientists at the U. S. National Arboretum
through years of hybridization, selection, and careful evaluation. During
it's 80 year history, the Arboretum has released over 650 different woody
and herbaceous plants to the American public through the nursery and floral
industries. Each year, several new plants are made available.
Some of our recent introductions include new flowering cherries (Prunus'First Lady' and 'Dream Catcher'),
three new pot plants (Ornithagalum'Chesapeake Blaze', 'Chesapeake Sunburst', 'Chesapeake Sunset'),
the second in a series of exciting miniature crapemyrtles (Lagerstroemia'Pocomoke'), a lilac cultivar developed specifically
for warmer climates (Syringa'Betsy Ross'),
the first redbud cultivar released by the Arboreum (Cercis'Don Egolf',
named in honor of the late Dr. Egolf), and two hybrid crapemyrtles Lagerstroemia'Arapaho' and 'Cheyenne'.

Two of our introductions include
two new lilac cultivars Syringa 'Old Glory' and
'Declaration', which were recently released
to the ornamental nursery industry by the Arboretumís shrub breeding program. The new lilacs are ideal
for a variety of landscape uses from specimen plants, hedges or even in mass plantings.
'Declaration' was selected for its fragrant striking reddish-purple flowers in floral
clusters up to 15 inches long along the branches. 'Old Glory' has abundant fragrant
bluish-purple flowers, rounded growth habitat and leaves that have improved disease
tolerance. Click here
to learn more about these two lilacs.

Callicarpa dichomata 'Duet' - a new variegated Beautyberry. which were recently released
to the ornamental nursery industry by the Arboretumís McMinnville shrub breeding program in cooperation with Tennessee Technological University.
Click here to learn more about this disease and insect tolerant and
low maintenance landscape plant (or here for the Fact Sheet).

We are pleased
to provide to you an up-to-date list of our introductions. In addition,
we are now developing and presenting detailed Fact
Sheets for many of our outstanding plants. In addition, some of
these Fact Sheets are of our releases which have been awarded Gold Medals by different
plant societies. These are superior landscape plants and proven winners.
Please scan the individual Fact Sheets to learn more about each of these
plants and see if they are suited for your needs.

New Arboretum Posters Highlight Introductions

Click here to see our three new full-color posters featuring some of our best woody plant introductions.
One poster features our superior tree introductions, while a second one focuses on our most outstanding
shrub cultivars. The third poster is devoted solely to our well-known crapemyrtle introductions.